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Images of the Day

Selected by picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons

Thu 21 Feb 2019

ON THE BRINK: People view the coastal erosion damage to Gráinne Hennigan's house on Portrane Beach in north Co Dublin this afternoon. The house began to collapse earlier this week. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

YOUNG ACADEMICS: Millie Palmer (5), from Terenure; Sadie Palmer (2), from Terenure; Ciara Lyons (4), from Bayside and her brother Donal (2 and a half) at the launch of Growing Up in Ireland reports at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin 2. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

SEAHORSE: Christiane O' Mahony's one-woman play 'Seahorse' about the anxiety of being a modern woman in Ireland opens at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in March. Photograph: Enrique Carnicero

BREAKING THE LAW: Rebellious pigeons flouting the rules St Stephen's Green at lunchtime this afternoon. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

SPRING IN THEIR STEP: People enjoying the sunshine in St Stephen's Green at lunchtime this afternoon. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

POLES PROTEST: Activists in Poland pull down a statue of a prominent deceased priest, Fr Henryk Jankowski, who allegedly abused minors sexually, in Gdansk, Poland. The activists said it was an act of protest against the Polish Catholic Church for failing to deal with sexual abuse by members of the clergy. Photograph: Bartek Sabela/Gazeta Wyborcza/AP

VATICAN SUMMIT: Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops attending the opening of a global child protection summit for reflections on the sex abuse crisis within the Catholic Church at the Vatican. Photograph: Vatican Media/AFP

CITY OF LIGHT: A swan floats past a display of illuminated paper lanterns floating at The Lantern Company and Writing on the Wall's City of Light, City of Sanctuary public art project on Sefton Park Lake in Liverpool. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

IRAQ: A view of Martyr's Memorial in Baghdad, Iraq. It is dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq War. Photograph: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters

EYE FOR DETAIL: A worker checks a film strip at a cinema house in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photograph: Fayaz Aziz/Reuters

UNICORNS ARE REAL: Women work on unicorn stuffed toys for export at a workshop in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China. Photograph: Reuters

SCULPTING HISTORY: Cork Public Museum acting curator Dan Breen; Tom Dowdall, a grandson of former mayor Jane Dowdall; Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Mick Finn and and Deborah Dowdall, Jane's granddaughter, with a marble bust of Cork's former mayor Terence MacSwiney and a Cork republican silver cup to be displayed at the museum at Fitzgerald's Park. Photograph: Michael O'Sullivan/OSM Photo

PATRICK'S DAY PREPARATION: Minister for Transport Shane Ross, Chairwoman of Tourism Ireland Joan O'Shaughnessy and chief executive of Tourism Ireland Niall Gibbons at the launch of the Global Greening line-up for St Patrick's Day 2019. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

TALKING DIRTY: A panel discussion at the Science Gallery in Dublin moderated by Lu Sabrio (visual artist and sex educator), with Caroline West (MA in Sexuality Studies, PhD researcher in porn studies) and Kate McGrew (a sex worker and director of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland). The discussion looked at the myths and realities of pornography. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times